The LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit provides a unique software-based measurement approach to creating customized applications with an open analysis capability and flexible measurement library. NI’s sound and vibration analysis software offers a complete solution for many acoustics, electroacoustics, noise vibration harshness (NVH), and machine condition monitoring (MCM) applications. There are two editions available, Base and Full, so engineers can choose the software most relevant to their test needs.
The LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit simplifies analysis and measurement tasks. You can perform audio and distortion measurements, frequency analysis, frequency response measurements, and transient analysis. This add-on for LabVIEW also contains power spectrum, swept sine, and octave analysis virtual instruments (VIs).
| Base | Full | |
|---|---|---|
| File I/O | ||
| UFF58 (ASCII, Binary) | ||
| Logging to TDMS | ||
| Frequency Analysis | ||
| FFT analysis | ||
| Zoom FFT | ||
| Subset FFT | ||
| Frequency response function (FRF) | ||
| Cross spectra | ||
| Coherent output power | ||
| Peak search | ||
| Power in band | ||
| Performance-optimized analysis for online processing | ||
| Frequency-referenced vector averaging | ||
| Graphs, Displays, and Controls | ||
| Time waveform, octave spectra, FFT spectra graphs | ||
| Waterfall plot | ||
| Spectral map | — | |
| Bode plots | ||
| Orbit and shaft centerline plot | — | |
| Polar plot | — | |
| Acoustic Measurements | ||
| Sound level | ||
| 1/n octave | ||
| Weighting filters | ||
| Statistical level | ||
| Sound quality | — | |
| Vibration Measurements | ||
| Integration | ||
| Vibration level | ||
| Human vibration filters | — | |
| Torsional vibration | —
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| Audio Measurements, Tone and Distortion | ||
| Harmonics | ||
| Distortion (THD, THD+N, SINAD) | ||
| Intermodulation distortion (IMD) | ||
| Tone detection | ||
| Multitone analysis | ||
| Audio test signal generation | ||
| Discrete frequency sweep analysis | ||
| Continuous frequency sweep analysis | — | |
| Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) | ||
| Crosstalk | ||
| SNR | ||
| Discrete frequency sweep analysis | ||
| Swept sine | ||
| Histogram | ||
| Limit testing | ||
| Data Acquisition | ||
| Software analog reference trigger | ||
| Delay and polarity | ||
| Waveform alignment | ||
| Get by measurement type | ||
| Waveform Generation | ||
| Broadband noise (White, Pink, PRN) | ||
| Functions (Sine, Square, Triangle) | ||
| Continuous frequency sweep | ||
| Discrete frequency sweep | ||
| Discrete amplitude sweep | ||
| Phase-continuous multitone | ||
| Transient Analysis | ||
| Shock response spectrum (SRS) | ||
| Short-time Fourier transform (STFT) | ||
| Calibration | ||
| Accelerometer and microphone calibration | ||
| Order Analysis | ||
| Angular resampling | — | |
| Envelope detection | — | |
| Tachometer processing | — | |
| Order power spectrum | — | |
| Full spectrum | — | |
| Order tracking | — | |
| Order extraction | — | |